Evan Smith is playing a semantics game (“Wrong proposal for an income tax,” Feb. 4). When 70 percent of the voters of Washington passed DOMA, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, they were not merely voting for the word “marriage,” but the rights and responsibilities of the word “marriage.” What is presently happening in our state Legislature, with Ruth Kagi’s full support, is a prime example of bad government…a special interest group influencing legislators (and probably later litigating in court for the word “marriage”) to divisively overturn the initiative process. Look at California, where 70 percent of the African-Americans voted in favor of marriage, defined as a union between one man and one woman. Many strong proponents of civil rights issues simply do not see the redefining of marriage as a civil rights issue. If marriage is realistically now to be redefined in the state of Washington, which carries with it huge societal implications, for the sake of political integrity the people of our state need to vote to redefine it.
Kathryn McCleary
Edmonds
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